Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to accept totalitarian terror on the strength of a hypothetical future.
Love Among the Haystacks is the story of two brothers, the tensions between them and the emotional fulfilment each finds one summer night after the Nottingham harvest.
Leon is rich, bisexual, Jewish and white South African. Holed up in his luxuriur London mansion, with his lebieral English wife, tired f hiding from the spectres of the three As (AIDS, Apartheid and Anti-Semitism). Leon is slowly drowning in a sea of vodka, sex and cocaine. But then a chance
All the stories in this book were written before the First World War, and were originally published in two volumes, THE CELESTIAL OMNIBUS in 1911, and THE ETERNAL MOMENT in 1928. Although they are fantasies, and morę lighthearted than the major novels like A PASSAGE TO INDIA and HOWARDS END, behind
A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan Simms Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we think we know about him are wrong. As Brendan Simms's major new biography shows, Hitler's main preoccupation was not,
A revelatory new biography of Adolf Hitler from the acclaimed historian Brendan Simms Adolf Hitler is one of the most studied men in history, and yet the most important things we think we know about him are wrong. As Brendan Simms's major new biography shows, Hitler's main preoccupation was not,
War has come to Asmir's home in Sarajevo. He is torn from his father, his home and everything he has known. He becomes a refugee. This is a story of courage you will never forget.
"Hearing the words 'be good to yourself first, then to others' was like being struck by lightning." Many of us respond to the pressures of life by turning inwards and ignoring problems, sometimes resulting in anxiety or depression. Others react by working harder at work, at school or at home,
